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Blurb: “Garrets and Pretenders a Mistory of Bohemianism in America by Albert Parry
From Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830's to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1960, American Bohemianism has had a long, colorful, and usually somewhat fantastic history. This is the only complete record of that story-with hoboes, cranks and starving poets as its heroes; suffragettes and artists' models as its heroines; and banquets, suicides, and ferocious literary rivalries as part of its plot.
In the cast of characters are the fat, jolly Charles Pfaff, whose saloon was the famous headquarters of Bohemia for decades; Ada Clare, who was proclaimed the Queen of Bohemia for writing some impossibly bad verses; Walt Whitman, Whistler, Stephen Crane, 0. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Hemingway, Pound, Hart Crane-in short, the entire spectrum of the often tragicomic characters who made up 130 years of American Bohemianism.
This new edition of Albert Parry's classic history (first published in 1933) carries the chronicle down to the beatniks and hipsters of 1960. There is a new chapter by the author (Greenwich Village: 1948"') and a study of the Beat Generation and its major writings and figures by Professor Harry T. Moore. Throughout the book as a whole are scores of cartoons, drawings, and caricatures selected from such magazines as the "Lark" to citizens.
show how each age viewed the escapades of Bohemia's unconventional
This is not merely a collection of stories and anecdotes, however; it is also a connected and well-documented history. Here are quotes from the little magazines and original writings of the time, descriptions of the changing Bohemian fashions in clothing and foods, and many more evidences of painstaking research, giving the reader an authentic picture of the lives and deeds of America's Bohemians.
"Thoroughly fascinating. an excellent account," NEW YORK TIMES. "He exhibits the full circle of bohemian life," SATURDAY REVIEW.
"Thorough and unusually well documented account," BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.
Revised edition, with new chapters and illustrations. Bibliography. Index. xxviii + 421pp.”